This is the true story of a young woman who sets out across the continent on wild freight trains in search of beauty, freedom and adventure. There is weather, wind, and peril; she becomes hopelessly lost; she lives for days in magical, forgotten forests; there is dehydration and loneliness; there are other human beings, impossibly brilliant, who shine like bright stars in the dark and endless universe.
Riding freight trains- the last great American adventure!
This is a story for anyone who has ever wanted to ignore the rules and find the real edges of what is and is not possible. This is a story for those who have dreamed of hopping freight trains. This is a story of freight train travel, of hitchhiking, of adventure; but it is also a story of the search for meaning and connection in a sometimes stark and empty land.
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Publication Date: January 15, 2013 | Series: Thomas Guide Atlas Los Angeles and Orange County Completely Updated!
Southern California's iconic page and grid system.
Landscape layout with lay-flat sprial binding.
Maps, points of interest, and their indexes are completely revised.
Includes transit information, airports, schools, shopping centers, parks and recreation areas.
Administrative and zip code boundaries included.
Block numbers on maps and in index.
Township tier, range and section numbers.
Full coverage of over 400 cities and communities including - Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Glendale, Irvine, Lancaster, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Mission Viejo, Pasadena, Pomona, Santa Ana, and Santa Clarita.
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Publisher: All Maps Canada; 53rd Edition edition (January 15, 2013)
Release date: January 1, 2013 Streetwise Amsterdam Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Folding pocket size travel map with tram lines, metro lines, water bus
This map covers the following areas: Main Amsterdam Map 1:14,500 Central Amsterdam Map 1:9,000 Amsterdam Surrounding Area Map 1:80,000
Amsterdam is one of the most beautiful small scale cities in the world. Before or after a journey through the Netherlands, spend some time here and enjoy the atmosphere of a beautiful European city without the jarring intensity of a larger urban environment.
From the winding waterways to its world famous museums, there's much to see and do in Amsterdam, though finding your way around the canal system can be confusing, so don't forget your STREETWISE? Amsterdam city map.
The STREETWISE? Amsterdam Map will enable you to visit all the cool and cultural sites. Walk among the 17th and 18th century architecture, join with the fleets of bicycles to tour the city or just meander through leafy Rembrandt Park to experience the funky mix of locals and foreign backpackers. Whether you want to walk or take public transport to the famous Riksmuseum, the STREETWISE? Amsterdam Map will help get you there.
Dam Square, about five minutes' walk south of the main station, is the center of town and much more is within walking distance. Leidsplein, with much of the city's cultural life and nightlife, Rembrandtplein and Musemplein are just a few of the special places that make Amsterdam a joy to explore on foot or bike.
A complete index of hotels, points of interest, cultural sites, and parks, are clearly listed, as well as tram lines and museum boat stops.
Our pocket size map of Amsterdam is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE? Amsterdam map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE?. Buy your STREETWISE? Amsterdam map today and you too can navigate Amsterdam, Netherlands like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.
Release date: January 1, 2013Streetwise Rome Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Rome, Italy - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including subway & railway lines, stations
This map covers the following areas: Main Rome Map 1:17,000 Rome Historic District Map 1:8,700 Rome Metro Map
As the saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day. It took hundreds of years to create the great Roman Empire, but it shouldn't take as long to find your way around the ancient ruins that remain. With a STREETWISE? Map of Rome Italy, you have the ultimate guide to navigating Italy's most famous and most historic city.
Throughout the city of Rome, past and present are intertwined as modern-day Italians and visiting tourists walk and drive through the remnants of one of history's greatest civilizations. Whether it's your first time or another return visit to your favorite destination, there's always something new to see in Rome. A great map can be the key to discovering all the city has to offer.
Our STREETWISE? Rome Map provides a comprehensive and fully detailed map of Rome to aid you in finding your way to all there is to do and see in this great center of history and culture. From Vatican City to the southeast corner of Palatine, the STREETWISE? Rome Map covers the entire city in full-color, including graphic representations of the major buildings and historic sites. Our STREETWISE? Rome City Map is fully indexed, including streets, piazzas, gardens, and important places of interest. The STREETWISE? Rome Map also features a map of the Rome Metro system, including subway lines, railways, and the airport.
Our pocket size map of Rome is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE? Rome map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE?. Buy your STREETWISE? Rome map today and you too can navigate Rome, Italy like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.
Release date: January 1, 2013 Streetwise Paris Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Paris, France - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including lines & stations
This map covers the following areas: Main Paris Map 1:14,000 Paris Metro Map Map of France
There are more clichés about Paris than there are tourists at the Louvre, but the fact is that underneath each overused hackneyed cliché is a glistening kernel of truth. The City of Light, the City of Love and the City of Romance, familiar platitudes, but once you experience it for yourself you understand why. There is a je ne sais quoi allure to this city that beguiles, but never completely reveals what makes it so universally appealing. Artists, poets, writers, and composers have tried to define exactly what it is about this place, and yet they succeed only to a point. Perhaps it is as elusive as defining love, for to be in Paris entails experiencing love, about someone, something, some place.
There is so much to do - you know the big ones, the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Sacre Coeur, St. Germain des Pres, the Left Bank, the Right Bank, the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysées, the Opéra- but don't miss the fun of discovering the small ones, the ones off the beaten path. Nothing like taking your time strolling thru the turn of the century mansion that houses Musée Marmottan then enjoying a café and patisserie in the museums jewel box café.
Wandering aimlessly is romantic. Getting lost isn't romantic. In fact there are few things that can drain the romance out of a situation faster than realizing that you're hopelessly lost. So take your travel map and put it away if you want to wander, but have no fear that your wandering will turn into a lost odyssey. You can always pull out the STREETWISE? Paris Map and get yourself pointed back in the right direction.
Paris is not without faults. Sometimes people can be rude, but that's the case anywhere in the world - be it a large city or small village. You get what you give. And in the case of Paris, as with any true love, you accept the flaws with the charms, the weaknesses with the strengths. In the end the true beauty of Paris will surpass any blemish. Life from a Parisian perspective is beautiful. But that's another cliché, isn't it?
Our pocket size map of Paris is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE? Paris map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE?. Buy your STREETWISE? Paris map today and you too can navigate Paris, France like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.
Release date: December 27, 2012Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. ? ? Simon Garfield's Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts: maps. ? Imagine a world without maps. How would we travel? Could we own land? What would men and women argue about in cars? Scientists have even suggested that mapping?not language?is what elevated our prehistoric ancestors from ape-dom. Follow the history of maps from the early explorers' maps and the awe-inspiring medieval Mappa Mundi to Google Maps and the satellite renderings on our smartphones, Garfield explores the unique way that maps relate and realign our history?and reflect the best and worst of what makes us human. ? Featuring a foreword by Dava Sobel and packed with fascinating tales of cartographic intrigue, outsize personalities, and amusing ?pocket maps" on an array of subjects from how to fold a map to the strangest maps on the Internet, On the Map is a rich historical tapestry infused with Garfield's signature narrative flair. Map-obsessives and everyone who loved Just My Type will be lining up to join Garfield on his audacious journey through time and around the globe. ?
Publication Date: April 2, 2013A People's Guide to Detroit is a unique collection of places to visit based on individual experiences of residents of Detroit. Fully illustrated and with reviews teeming with personality, this accessible book explores Detroit's fascinating and non-touristic destinations, which makes it perfect for those looking for a locals perspective of traveling through Detroit or searching for hidden gems in the city.
Nice is the queen of the C?te d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the sixth century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour as well as Lost Generation literati from Hemingway to Fitzgerald. Since the late nineteenth century it has been known as a 'pleasure capital', and now tourism is its beating heart. But how did this happen? What was it that changed not just Nice or the French Riviera, but our leisure habits as a whole?
HIGH SEASON is a book about pleasure and escape - about what five months or five days in a strikingly beautiful, foreign place, wrested from lives choked with stress and toil back home, meant to a few wealthy people 250 years ago, and mean to millions more of more modest means today. It is about how modern tourism got the way it did. It is about how Nice and the Riviera became what they are; and about the price they paid to do so.
Learn what to pack and how to pack it so you can eliminate checked bags and lost luggage. Learn the best website to book your flight through, where to get a refund when your airfare drops in price, and how to pack your bags to maximize limited space. This guide to the traveling life will ensure that each trip remains enjoyable.
Publication Date: February 1, 2013 Meet twenty-six of historys most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale. Decide whether Tituba was really a conspiring witch or just a humble housemaid. Analyze the evidence stacked for and against Lizzie Borden. And what made the brazen Cleopatra so dishonorable . . . or honorable? Each chapter ends with comic panels featuring caricatures of the authors discussing the women, with Heidi arguing as the prosecution and Jane arguing for context.
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest?primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and to our own understanding of ourselves.
Tackling Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas in turn, and covering the highlights of their respective careers, Primates is an accessible, entertaining, and informative look at the field of primatology and at the lives of three of the most remarkable women scientists of the twentieth century. Thanks to the charming and inviting illustrations by Maris Wicks, this is a nonfiction graphic novel with broad appeal.
Super-sized critters are popping up and causing havoc all over Skylands! Spyro and his fellow Skylanders set out on a mission to work out what's going on and save the day - but it seems the scheming Kaos is intent on beating them to it. Based on the characters from the smash hit Skylanders video game, Spyro versus the Mega Monsters is the very first novel in the new Mask of Power story series.
Sometimes they're an exciting adventure. But sometimes they're like a traffic jam going nowhere. Or even worse, they're a wrong turn that's taken you hundreds of miles off your course.
With much-needed humor and honest advice, bestselling author and speaker Chad Eastham helps you think through tough but necessary relationship issues such as:
·???????? Why some people find happiness, while others find heartache
·???????? Why pain hurts so much
·???????? When to break up
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Chad's conversational tone, facts, and advice encourage young people to rethink life's conversations, even the difficult stuff like heartbreak. There is nothing in life that is too big, too painful, or too difficult that God cannot make better and use to teach us about love. Nothing.
Collins French-English Dictionary & Grammar is an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly grammar guide in one handy volume. With 100,000 references and over 90,000 translations, plus an easy-to-use grammar section this is the the ideal translation tool.
Collins French-English Dictionary & Grammar is designed for all learners of French, whether at school, at home, or for business. It will help those learning French take their language skills to the next level.
This Kindle edition of Collins French-English Dictionary & Grammar has been revised and updated to offer extensive and relevant coverage of today's English and French, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation. A comprehensive grammar guide presents detailed examples and translations to help users to understand French grammar – the perfect complement to the dictionary.
To provide for full English and French indexes on Kindle, Collins French Dictionary & Grammar is available as two separate English-French and French-English Kindle Books.
Surf Better is a must-have book for surfers, ocean-goers and anyone looking for a simple, effective way to get in shape and stay there. A complete surfing program including fitness, tactics and techniques, wave knowledge, and more. Fully illustrated with charts, diagrams and how-to surf photos.
Surf Better is a complete surfing program, including: ? Instructional surfing photos ? Surfing technique and check list ? Dry Land Surf School with workouts and agility drills ? Understanding waves and swell direction ? Surfing a new break ? How to read waves, rips and boils ? Using tides and currents.
PART I: SURFING TECHNIQUE Preparation and takeoff - Foot position - Frontside vs. Backside - Technical practice checklist - Leash management and the "Houdini Moment"
PART II: KNOW YOUR OCEAN Sea, swell and waves - Wave formation and propagation – How waves travel – How fast do waves move? – What defines "deep water" and "shallow water?" – Ocean facts
PART III: KNOW YOUR BREAK Swell direction and the "magic number" - Tides - Wave refraction and Island wave shadows - The effects of wind – How waves behave in shallow water - Interpreting swell information – Understanding size vs. power – Using reef boils – Using currents
PART IV: DRY LAND SURF SCHOOL Full flexibility, agility and surf simulation section with dozens of exercises and workout packages.
? ? ? Dave Rearwin grew up surfing in Southern California in the 1950s with a crew that included legends like Rick Naish, Carl Ekstrom and Butch Van Artsdalen. He transitioned from balsa to foam, from longboards to shortboards, and from the no-leash, no-wetsuit era to the ease and comfort we enjoy today.
Surf Better is the product of his long and varied experience with all phases of surfing. Responding to the needs of surfers of all skill levels, including surfers returning after long layoffs or recovering from injuries, he developed a series of non-destructive, zero-impact, surf-specific exercises--exercises which proved their worth by allowing him to get back into surfing after a forced layoff of several years. These are included in the Dry Land Surf School section.
Winter recreation in the backcountry has increased steadily over the years and so has the number of deaths and injuries caused by avalanches. As search and rescue teams are increasingly strapped for funding, self-education has become a larger necessity for snow-sport enthusiasts. The new edition of Bruce Tremper's seminal book is organized according to the structure of American Avalanche Association classes and all chapters have been updated and reviewed by peer experts.
Publication Date: January 1, 2013 | Age Level: 8 and up Sled dogs are a very popular topic among children, and in Spring 2013 the Iditarod will be celebrating its 40th anniversary!
The Iditarod has been called the "Last Great Race on Earth." Spanning over 1,150 miles of the roughest terrain in the world, this race crosses jagged mountain ranges, frozen rivers, forest, tundra, and miles of windswept coast. Add to that the below-zero temperatures, winds that cause complete loss of visibility, long hours of darkness, treacherous climbs, and you know this nickname is no joke. A race this rugged would not even be possible for the human competitors (or "mushers") without their sled dogs! With between 12 to 15 per team and over 50 teams competing, there are nearly 750 dogs that compete in this race every year. Doggy-lovers and children everywhere will love to learn about these dogs and just how exactly they manage to compete in this grueling race. MUSH! will teach young readers about the Iditarod, the mushers, and the dogs whose history dates back to the famous Balto. Full-color photos will be used throughout to complement the informative text.
Antarctica is the most alien place on the planet, the only part of the earth where humans could never survive unaided. Out of our fascination with it have come many books, most of which focus on only one aspect of its unique strangeness. None has managed to capture the whole story—until now.
Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, in Antarctica Gabrielle Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into an intricate tapestry, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people. With her we witness cutting-edge science experiments, visit the South Pole, lodge with American, Italian, and French researchers, drive snowdozers, drill ice cores, and listen for the message Antarctica is sending us about our future in an age of global warming.
This is a thrilling trip to the farthest reaches of earth by one of the best science writers working today.
Publication Date: December 27, 2012 | Series: Gun Digest
Need answers now? Gun Digest's Shooter's Guide to Handguns will quickly give you the facts you need to help you choose your handgun, select ammunition, shoot it effectively, and take care of your investment--all in an easy-to-read, well-illustrated format.
With more information for the dollar than any shooting book on the market, you get:
Compelling text by a world-renowned revolver gunsmith and certified Combat Focus Shooting instructor.
Up-to-date ballistics data.
The latest handguns, loads and optics.
Whether you're interested in self defense, hunting, plinking, or competition, this is the one book that should be on your shelf!
This is Volume 2 in the Champion Shooting book series. The first volume Champion Shooting, a Proven Process For Success at Any Level, sets you on the path to improvement with the greatest impact for the effort you put in. It provides the foundation for a practice regiment and discusses all facets of training. One of the key aspects of practice discussed in the first volume is the notion of dry-fire. So we took this concept and elaborated on it with a focus on how to fit this method of practice into your overall regimen.
Whether it's USPSA, IPSC, IDPA or Steel Challenge practical shooters always seem to be talking about dry-fire. It seems to be generally accepted that dry-fire is an important means of improving your shooting technique. There are many schools of thought pertaining to the use of dry-fire techniques as a means of improvement. Just about everyone thinks it is important, but most people do not seem to implement it into their regular training regimen. Many people use dry-fire extensively for a short time and then stop doing it. We are not quite sure why people stop training through dry-fire although there are many thoughts around this – it can be boring, mundane, not realistic, etc.
This book will help you gain an understanding of the following myths concerning its use as a training technique: * You have heard that it's boring? This book will disprove that. * You will not learn anything by using it as a practice method, and you won't get any faster even if you do? The drills within this book will disprove that. * You do not know what to practice? This is a book filled with practice concepts.
Publication Date: December 31, 2012 This is Volume 2 in the Champion Shooting book series. The first volume Champion Shooting, a Proven Process For Success at Any Level, sets you on the path to improvement with the greatest impact for the effort you put in. It provides the foundation for a practice regiment and discusses all facets of training. One of the key aspects of practice discussed in the first volume is the notion of dry-fire. So we took this concept and elaborated on it with a focus on how to fit this method of practice into your overall regimen. Whether it's USPSA, IPSC, IDPA or Steel Challenge practical shooters always seem to be talking about dry-fire. It seems to be generally accepted that dry-fire is an important means of improving your shooting technique. There are many schools of thought pertaining to the use of dry-fire techniques as a means of improvement. Just about everyone thinks it is important, but most people do not seem to implement it into their regular training regimen. Many people use dry-fire extensively for a short time and then stop doing it. We are not quite sure why people stop training through dry-fire although there are many thoughts around this – it can be boring, mundane, not realistic, etc. This book will help you gain an understanding of the following myths concerning its use as a training technique: * You have heard that it's boring? This book will disprove that. * You will not learn anything by using it as a practice method, and you won't get any faster even if you do? The drills within this book will disprove that. * You do not know what to practice? This is a book filled with practice concepts.
Release date: March 5, 2013 Here is armed America—a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they're collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many Americans love guns—which horrifies and fascinates many other Americans, and much of the rest of the world. This lively, sometimes raucous book explores from the inside the American love affair with firearms.?
Dan Baum is both a lifelong gun guy and a Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey feeling like a "child of a bitter divorce with allegiance to both parents." In Gun Guys he grabs his licensed concealed handgun and hits the road to meet some of the 40 percent of Americans who own guns. We meet Rick Ector, a black Detroit autoworker who buys a Smith & Wesson after suffering an armed robbery—then quits his job to preach the gospel of armed self-defense, especially to the resistant black community; Jeremy and Marcey Parker, a young, successful Kentucky couple whose idea of a romantic getaway is the Blue Ridge Mountain 3-Gun Championship in Bowling Green; and Aaron Zelman, head of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Baum also travels to New Orleans, where he enters the world of a man disabled by a bullet, and to Chicago to interview a killer. Along the way, he takes us to gun shows, gun stores, and shooting ranges trying to figure out why so many of us love these things and why they inspire such passions.
In the tradition of Confederates in the Attic and Among the Thugs, Baum brings an entire world?to life. Written equally for avid shooters and those who would never touch a firearm, Gun Guys is more than a travelogue. It gives a fresh assessment of the heated politics surrounding guns, one that will challenge and inform people on all sides of the issue.? This may be the first book that goes beyond gun politics to illuminate the visceral appeal of guns—an original, perceptive, and surprisingly funny journey through American gun culture.
